Panel on Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust at the Washington DCJCC May 3, 2011

Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and literary and film interpretations, this volume broadens and deepens our comprehension of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust, challenging claims that Jewish women were not sexually violated and revealing the sexual violence committed in ghettos and in hiding.

Saidel, an editor of the book, and two contributors, Professor Eva Fogelman and University Distinguished Professor Emerita S. Lillian Kremer, will discuss their ground-breaking anthology, whose topics include rape, forced prostitution, assaults on childbearing, artistic representations of sexual violence, and psychological insights into survivor trauma. These subjects have been relegated to the edges or completely left out of Holocaust history, and this book aims to shift perceptions and promote new discourse. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Myrna Goldenberg.